 | Robert Grant - 1852 - 686 стор.
...and ordinary inquirers of nature. Alluding to his discoveries in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says, " If I have done the public any service this way, it...due to nothing but industry and patient thought." In fact, it was only by the most strenuous contention of mind, and the sternest subjection of the will,... | |
 | David Brewster - 1855 - 592 стор.
...him, that when he wrote his treatise about our system, viz., the Third Book of the Principia, " he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity," and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose. " But if I have done." he... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1861 - 794 стор.
...overweening opinion of himself. Alluding to his discoveries in a letter to Dr. Bentley, he says : " If I have done the public any service this way, it...due to nothing but industry and patient thought." When asked how he arrived at his discoveries, he replied : " I keep the subject constantly before me,... | |
 | Josiah Miller - 1870 - 272 стор.
...much indebted. In one of these Newton says that when he wrote the third book of the ' Principia' ' lie had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity.' On one occasion, in 1714, having dined with M. Deslandes, author of ' A Critical History of Philosophy,'... | |
 | 1878 - 1074 стор.
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he had an eye upon such principles as might work, with considering men, for the belief of a Deity, and he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1878 - 1068 стор.
...1692,) Sir Isaac (then Mr.) Newton remarks, that in composing the Third Book of the Principia, ' he ! he expresses his happiness that it has been found useful for that purpose.' The modesty of this great... | |
 | 1879 - 912 стор.
...celebrated four Bentley letters which begin with these words ; " When I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...due to nothing but industry and patient thought." In the second letter Newton says, " I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this system to an intelligent... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1879 - 672 стор.
...Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...purpose. But if I have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought." 11 a correspondence. In one of... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1879 - 668 стор.
...Newton to Dr. Bentley, written in 1692, are these words: — "When 1 wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with...more than to find it useful for that purpose. But if 1 have done the public any service in this way, it is due to nothing but industry and patient thought."... | |
 | Charles Croslegh - 1884 - 212 стор.
...to Dr. Bentley in 1692, Neuiton says, that, when he wrote the third book of the " Principia," he " had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity." He is truly described in the epitaph in the Abbey :— " Naturse, antiquitatis, S. Scripturse Sedulus,... | |
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WHEN I wrote my treatise about our system, I had an eye upon such principles as might work with considering men for the belief of a Deity ; and nothing can rejoice me more than to find it useful for that purpose. 
